Article in The Times of Israel by Andy Blumenthal:The nations of the world look on with horror at the “plight of the Palestinians,” but they turn a blind eye to the chants of “death to Israel” and as the Palestinians turn billions of dollars of aid into relentless homicide bombs and send thousands of missiles into Israel civilian population centers. The compromise that Israel has shown would end the Palestinian “victim status” and thus endanger their endless money and support that flows freely from the UNRWA to prop up the corrupt Palestinian leadership. The reason that the Palestinian leadership doesn’t want an agreement is that they want the Jews dead “from the river to the sea!”

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When Compromise
Means Death
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Jewish people, motivated by taking the moral and ethical “high road” whenever
possible, must ask ourselves: after so many decades of bloody ghting, maybe

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we should just compromise with our Palestinian neighbors and give them a state
of their own (i.e. the” two-state solution”)?
In fact, all along Israel has repeatedly attempted to do exactly this. Israel agreed
to the UN Partition Plan, but this was rejected by the Arabs and they instead
invaded, and for decades waged a war of attrition against it. Not only that but
the Arab countries ethnically cleansed almost a million Jews from their
countries in the Middle East, looting their belongings along the way.
Despite all this, from the Oslo Accords with Yitzhak Rabin to the Camp David
Summit and Taba Talks with Ehud Barak, 36 negotiating sessions and the
eventual “Napkin Map” of proposed land swaps with Ehud Olmert, and most
recently, the Trump “Peace to Prosperity Plan” with Benjamin Netanyahu,
however, every time, Israel sought compromise, and no matter how much was
offered, the Palestinian leadership rejected it, typically without even a
counteroffer. For example Yasser Arafat atly rejected any and every offer at
Camp David, frustrating President Jimmy Carter’s incessant attempts at Middle
East peace.
The nations of the world look on with horror at the “plight of the Palestinians,”
but they turn a blind eye to the chants of “death to Israel” and as the
Palestinians turn billions of dollars of aid into relentless homicide bombs and
send thousands of missiles into Israel civilian population centers. The
compromise that Israel has shown would end the Palestinian “victim status”
and thus endanger their endless money and support that ows freely from the
UNRWA to prop up the corrupt Palestinian leadership. The reason that the
Palestinian leadership doesn’t want an agreement is that they want the Jews
dead “from the river to the sea!”
Arab rhetoric has been consistent from day one, calling for the destruction of
the Jewish State (in the PLO Charter, in the Hamas Covenant, etc.) insisting on
having all of Israel and killing all the Jews. They backed this up with both armed

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Palestinians terrorists attacking from within and a multitude of Arab armies
attacking Israel from without. In the Khartoum Resolution of 1967, the Arab
League, backed by their combined military might and massive oil revenues,
committed to the famous Three No’s with Israel: “No peace with Israel, no
recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with it,” essentially removing any
possibility for a peace deal let alone even recognizing Israel’s basic right to
exist.
Golda Meir said it best when she explained that what the Arabs wanted
After 2,000 years of exile and persecution, culminating in the slaughter of
6,000,000 in the Holocaust, former Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin
pointed out that “we have nothing more to lose.” He also saw that the Promised
Land is where we must of necessity ght in order to prevent our very extinction.
The Arabs portray Israel as a genocidal aggressor to de ect the world’s
attention from their true agenda. We just want to live, but they want us dead.
Recall that when rejecting the partition plan in 1948, the Arabs were told the
reward for conquering the Jews would be money, property, and rape of the
Jewish women of Tel Aviv and Haifa.
During the Intifada, the Palestinians slung so many stones at the Jews that
Israel realized they needed to remove an innocent ad for visitors to the Holy
Land that stated that Tel Aviv was just a “stone’s throw” from Jerusalem. Even
today, as the Palestinian leadership mock even the notion of peace, they
could not be settled by compromise—they want us dead. We have decided to
stay alive.”
“
That Jew, who the world considered dead and buried never to rise again, has
risen. For he has learned the ‘simple truth’ of life and death, and he will never
again go down to the sides of the pit and vanish from off the face of the earth.”
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Andy Blumenthal is a business and technology leader who writes frequently about Jewish life,
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promise everything from 72 virgins for their martyrs to cash stipends for their
families. As Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu poignantly said:
From a Jewish theological point of view, I do not believe it for us to give up any
of the Promised Land. But for most Jews, it is not really a matter of the quantity
or quality of land, but rather as it says in the Hatikvah: “To be a free nation in
our land.”
Israel has shown that is willing to make dif cult and painful decisions and
support Palestinian autonomy for the sake of peace, but will the Palestinians
ever compromise at all? As Golda Meir said:
Please G-d, the day will arrive soon, when reason will overcome hate, and peace
will prevail over prejudice, and Jews and Palestinians can live side-by-side, as
neighbors and as friends.
If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If
the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.
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Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate
us.”
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